“The trees are mostly skinny where the hermit lives, but they’re tangled over giant boulders with deadfall everywhere like pick up sticks.”
From The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit- Michael Finkel
The true story of a man who spent 27 years living in the Maine woods alone in a tent. I blew through this in two days, only because sleep and other stuff made me put it down.
We had a similar thread years ago, but it quietly died. I always liked it.
“Brian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELT light at exactly 10:14 P.M.”
– The Langoliers, by Stephen King, the first novella in his collection Four Past Midnight.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
Ursula Le Guin; A Wizard of Earthsea
It was with his usual alertness that T. J. Lambert noticed the shapely adorable when she came in the bar with her two best friends, which some people used to call tits.
Dan Jenkins, Rude Behavior
“Call me Jonah”
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Okay, I’ll play.
“On a chilly April night in 1940, leading officials of the Norwegian government were invited to the German legation in Oslo for the screening of a new film.”
“The newest girl had finally cried herself into exhaustion at last and slept, her tear-streaked face half hidden in her disordered hair, head cradled in the silken folds of Jeanette’s midnight-colored skirt.”
-Mercedes Lackey, The Black Swan
“All rights are reserved under Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions.”
“In the beginning, nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.”
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
just started my third attempt at reading Ulysses, doing much better this time.Quarter of the way through and I’m still motivated to finish, just don’t let Neil Stephenson or William Gibson put out a new book ( oh, shit)
–The Tritonian Ring by L. Sprague de Camp (1951, 1968)
Book: End of Watch, by Stephen King (reread, not my first time reading it).
Prologue: “It’s always darkest before the dawn.”
Actual chapter one: “A pane of glass breaks in Bill Hodges’s pants pocket.”
“Some children are just born bad, plain and simple.” – Allegedly, Tiffany Jackson
Boarding Party by James Leasor.
Did not know about this book, now added to my Amazon cart. Thanks for sharing.
I read Ulysses. Every word. Could not tell you a thing about it except that you spend a single day with Leopold Bloom.
mmm
“Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed.” Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones.
“The monster tract of land which our family own in Tennessee, was purchased by my father a little over forty years ago”.
Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol 1
“Around two o’clock on the cold, overcast morning of January 25, 1995, a group of four black men left the scene of a shooting at a hamburger restaurant in the Grove Hall section of Boston.”
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
I have the best commute in the world.
Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France, by Craig Colson.